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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 10:50 AM Mar 2021

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Obama marine monument designation

Source: The Hill


BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 03/22/21 10:28 AM EDT

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to former President Obama’s designation of a national monument 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a statement issued Monday that “despite concerns” about the designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, the lawsuit does not “satisfy our usual criteria” for reviewing cases.

Specifically, he cited a lower court’s finding that the fishing groups opposed to the monument designation did not present sufficient facts to show that it exceeded a requirement that the president designate the “smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected.”

“To date, petitioners have not suggested what this critical statutory phrase means or what standard might guide our review of the President’s actions in this area,” Roberts wrote.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/544294-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-challenge-to-obama-marine-monument

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Marthe48

(16,691 posts)
2. future petitioners will designate 0 sq. miles
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 12:33 PM
Mar 2021

Because they want free rein to despoil every bit of the planet.

jaxexpat

(6,702 posts)
4. Obama had the unmitigated and unprecedented gall to administer sanctions which governed.....
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 02:09 PM
Mar 2021

the prerogatives of white people. "How freaking dare he!", still echoes from their gallery.

So, to your question, "Was the lawsuit more about President Obama, than a national monument?", the answer must be a resounding yes.

Would they have attempted the same suit if it had been Clinton or Biden? Probably, except that had the president been a white man they would have at least made the effort to file a legitimate suit. One that defined the parameters of the points in question, data which might enable the USSC to adjudicate. Their failure to do so shows more about their dismissive and racist attitude toward Obama's administration and it's legitimacy than any concern they might have had about the NM designation.

It's all very, very ugly.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
5. It was all about the restrictions on fishing
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 03:26 PM
Mar 2021

that area is prime fishing and lobster waters. Any restrictions on fishing, regardless of who is president, are fiercely opposed in New England.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
6. I thought so. Too bad. Some of nature needs protection from corporate predations.
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 03:39 PM
Mar 2021

I'm from Maine and am vaguely familiar with its fish/lobster industry. They've always been fighters for every inch of fishing territory. Still. This is more about corporate control, imo. It's not as if small fisheries don't have the rest of 200 miles economic zone out along the 9,000+ miles of the rest of the nation's coast. Besides, from what I've read fish are migrating northward in this hemisphere because of better oxygenation in cooler waters.

This watery monument valley does look pretty cool, too.







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